Teknovations Investor Outlook 6

What do investors predict for 2025? Read the full article on Teknovations.Biz through the button below to hear from a panel of east TN based investors. Here’s what our Founder and Managing Partner Eric Dobson is anticipating in 2025:

Large families went strongly into venture capital during COVID. Money has been sitting on the sidelines for 18 months or went into real estate with the run-up in value on the heels of COVID. So, the question is, “do large family funds and institutional investors come back into private equity/venture capital despite the overhand of companies that raised money at unreasonable valuations preventing them from exiting.” In my opinion, the answer is bifurcated. If you invested in the large monetary centers and in unrealized unicorns, then it will be challenging raising new funds due to low performance in portfolios. However, if you invested in the Heartland, where valuations did not rise to this level, then showing appropriate performance will be easier and should provide for raising new funds. The question is how do the latter reach the former? For that, I do not have an answer.